Backtrack - for He?S a Jolly Goodfellow . . .

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JIMMY Goodfellow, and if ever a bright-shining example of name and nature it is that one, has retired after almost half a century in football. It got offto a flyer.

He was just 20, an apprentice draughtsman at Vickers naval yard on the Tyne, when he scored Crook Town?s first goal at Wembley in the 1964 Amateur Cup final against Enfield ? ?a header, too, ? he says and searches anxiously (and vainly) for the picture with which to prove it.

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Backtrack - for He?S a Jolly Goodfellow . . .

His scrapbook, however, does carry an eight-column headline wrongly attributing the goal to Matt Lumsdon.

Clearly the press box couldn?t believe its eyes, either.

By way of double celebration ? and there were, he concedes, a good few beers ? his beloved Sunderland clinched a long-awaited return to the top division by beating Charlton Athletic that same afternoon.

The players ran barefoot around Roker Park.

Generally taciturn manager Allan Brown forecast that Bill Shankly?s Liverpool...

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